2 REV. R. T. LOWE'S SUPPLEMENT TO HIS 



dorsalis elongato, pinnis pectoralibus hand breviore : oculis maximis : operculi an- 

 gusti carina obscurd : osse humerali angusto, margine posteriore recto, verticali. 



D. 4+18-20; V. 1 + 10; &c. 



B. decadactylus, Cuv. et Val., Hist. III. 222. 



B. splendens, nob. quoad icon. Tab. III. in Camb. Phil. Trans., Vol. VI. Part 1 ; baud 

 textus. 



When I pubhshed B. splendens as a new species in the Cambridge Transactions, I 

 was unacquainted with the present fish, though it is scarcely perhaps less common than 

 the former. I consequently did not discover till long after, that the figure intended for 

 my B. splendens had been inadvertently taken by Miss Young from an individual of JB. 

 decadactylus, Cuv., of which it offers the more obvious peculiarities. The true B. splen- 

 dens, therefore, yet remains unfigured, and till an opportunity presents of supplying this 

 deficiency in the " Fishes of Madeira," I subjoin its true specific characters, contrasted 

 with those of B. decadactylus. 



B. SPLENDENS. B. covpore oblongo, altitudine longitudinem capitis hand aquante : dorso 

 recto : basi pinna dorsalis brevi, pinnis pectoralibus breviore : oculis magnis ; capite 

 utrinque pone oculos gibboso : operculi lati carind prominente : osse humerali dilatato, 

 margine posteriore arcuato, obliqxio. 



D. 4+13- 15; V. 1 + 10- 13 (I + 11 fere); &c. 



B. splendens, nob. Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1833. 1. 142. Camb. Phil. Trans. VI. 1. 197 ; 

 excl. icon.— Syn. Mad. Fishes in Trans. Zool. Soc. Vol. ii. p. 174. 



Trachichthys pretiosus, nob. 



Hoplostethus mediterraneus, Cuv. et Val. IV. 496. t. 97. bis. Rariss. 



This fish is unquestionably congeneric, if it is not even still more closely allied with 

 Trachichthys australis of Shaw. Hence the above adoption of the older generic appella- 

 tion, affording opportunity for the substitution of a less restrictive specific title ; better 

 suited to a fish : proved by the occurrence of two individuals in these Atlantic seas not 

 to be peculiarly Mediterranean. 



To the Sub-Percidous family Berycidcs belongs also Polymixia ; nob. Camb. Phil. 

 Trans. IV. 1. 198. t. IV.— Syn. Mad. Fish. pp. 178, 179. 



Fam. Triglid^. 

 ScoRPiENA USTULATA. S. minor, laciniis nullis, rubra, pallida variegata nigroque punc- 

 tata ; genis operculisque granulato-pustulosis, maculd fused notatis : pinna dorsalis 

 medio unimaculata spind quartd ceteris longiore : capite s. rostro abbreviato, obtuso ; 

 maxillis cequalibus : squamis majusculis, scabriusculis. 



D. 12 + 9 ; A. 3 + 5 ; P. 1 + VII. + 10 ; V. 1 + 5 ; C. ^^. 



Rariss. 



